Water skiing hazards: nature and prevention.

Abstract

There has been some controversy about the real creator of the sport of water skiing The American Water Ski Association gives credit to Ralph Samuelson who, m 1922, watersk~ed on homemade skis at Lake City, Minnesota behind a 24 horsepower launch, and subsequently travelled throughout North America giving exhibitions for some IS years However, Dick Pope Sr claims it was the Late Fred Waller, creator of Cinerama who first rode on skies of his own